MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Hitting Improvements

[Blzer]

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I don't know why they don't just have more missed/fouled bunts as opposed to rocket bunts.

All this being said, I've seen rocket bunts IRL and I was a push-bunt artist batting right-handed IRL as well (bunting it past the charging pitcher and first baseman, right to the 2B starting area when he is covering 1B so that I can practically walk safely to the bag).

I don't know if there is any video of this anywhere, but I know it happened so back me up if you remember this: Olympic Stadium, Rafael Furcal bunted a bloop over the Expos' 3B head down the left field line for a double. Of course, the 3B was charging in but it still flew. Probably the hardest bunted ball I've ever seen with great effect.

[2OutRally]

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I'm referring to before they changed bunting to offset the online exploit. Was it a problem offline before that?

It was not. They F’d up offline with an online bandaid, the same thing they will do this year.

[Vercingetirex]

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It was not. They F’d up offline with an online bandaid, the same thing they will do this year.

This is why they should focus on making the game as simulation as possible. With the improvements to fielders charging up, if they were to make bunting as it should be, it would probably not even be a problem online to begin with.

[JayhawkerStL]

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So seems like they've added code to lower accuracy of a player throwing the same pitch over over again if it's not a #1 pitch. And maybe even a pci bonus to the batter.

It'll be an effective counter to players throwing the same pitch especially online.

However, that type of coding method will bring increased feelings of gameplay not feeling organic and "rubber banding". This type of coding hasn't been beneficial to any sim sports game.

I have to be honest, the way MBL 2K handled it was perfect, even if it seemed cheesy at first.

Every pitcher had his pitch %'s set, and if you started to throw any pitch significantly more than their real life %, then you were warned with a yellow background on that pitch. If you went well over, it turned red, and it was like what The Show is doing now.

It seemed kind of unsim at first, but the impact was much more sim. It forced me, as a pitcher, to think more about my strategy. In the end, I rarely ever over used pitches, even though I had long stopped trying to stay within limits. I was saving those change-ups and curveballs for the right counts and situation. It also encouraged me to "show" pitches, showing something tasty out of the strike zone.

At the beginning, it was very video game like. But eventually, I realized I was now pitching in a much more realistic manner and never looking at the %'s. It was a video game mode that taught players to play more sim like.


While being so blatant seemed less sim, the result was everyone just playing a more sim style of game online.

[Caulfield]

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I don't know why they don't just have more missed/fouled bunts as opposed to rocket bunts.

All this being said, I've seen rocket bunts IRL and I was a push-bunt artist batting right-handed IRL as well (bunting it past the charging pitcher and first baseman, right to the 2B starting area when he is covering 1B so that I can practically walk safely to the bag).

I don't know if there is any video of this anywhere, but I know it happened so back me up if you remember this: Olympic Stadium, Rafael Furcal bunted a bloop over the Expos' 3B head down the left field line for a double. Of course, the 3B was charging in but it still flew. Probably the hardest bunted ball I've ever seen with great effect.

This is exactly the way it ought to be. But TBH I don't have near the horror stories most people have/had because 90 percent of my bunting is done with pitchers, and those pitchers with highish (is that a word) bunting attribute. Otherwise put me in the nu skool of bunting is just giving your outs away.

[NAFBUC]

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I don’t think it’s wrong for me to post this if so please delete.

But during my play with the alpha bunting was more like how it was in ‘16 especially with good bunters.

FWIW


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Was your Alpha download 16gb?

[countryboy]

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Was your Alpha download 16gb?

I don’t remember


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[Caulfield]

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There were so many OSers helping SDS with the alpha, if it can be discussed openly now, maybe a mod can create a thread devoted to it? Love to hear everybody's hot take.

[countryboy]

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There were so many OSers helping SDS with the alpha, if it can be discussed openly now, maybe a mod can create a thread devoted to it? Love to hear everybody's hot take.

Cannot be discussed yet


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[Bullit]

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Yeah as far as I know we still have the NDA in effect. I have reached out and looked, but there is nothing I have found that has lifted it yet.

[ZB9]

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Pudge!! That 99 card is going to be insane, Piazza hitting with elite defense. He should have some speed too considering he stole 25 bases that year.

[John_2400]

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Based on track record, I have full confidence that they have F’d up ‘19

We all know all them patches they will do will.

[countryboy]

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I posted this in another thread thinking I was actually posting here:

I keep reading this concern that SDS focused solely on fixing online exploits and that means the offline user is at the mercy.

But I haven’t seen one thing mentioned this year thus far by the devs in these streams that is beyond the realm of baseball when it comes to fixing online exploits.

Personally it seems that their focus on fixing online exploits this year is leading to a more “sim/realistic” game.

[Caulfield]

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I posted this in another thread thinking I was actually posting here:

I keep reading this concern that SDS focused solely on fixing online exploits and that means the offline user is at the mercy.








But I haven’t seen one thing mentioned this year thus far by the devs in these streams that is beyond the realm of baseball when it comes to fixing online exploits.








Personally it seems that their focus on fixing online exploits this year is leading to a more “sim/realistic” game.

I probably get away with (human vs cpu) pitching high in the zone, mostly accidentally, and I expect I'll pay for it more this year. at least I hope so. its probably already hard to get away with that on the higher difficulties. if I start to see a bit more of it between all-star and veteran, they wont get any complaints here.

[forme95]

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Go to my slider thread and check out what Phillisfan hit with Jose Ramirez.

MVP type season.

What interface do you hit with?


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I use Armors sliders and play with the Indians, and I can tell you (streams to prove) Lindor, Ramirez are good hitters with plarnty of xbh to go along with it.

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